Yesterday my wife and I were discussing holiday options with our regular local travel agent. He is fully familiar with my interest in photography and with insects in particular.

The conversation drifted to insect-rich countries, and other countries of interest, including Turkey and he mentioned a "butterfly" he had seen in Turkey. He said it had long tails so I mentioned Swallowtails but he said he knew them and the tails were much longer. I mentioned the Ribbon-Tails and gave a brief description, only for it to be rejected. It had been a butterfly.

When I got home I searched for qualifying butterflies in the Turkish fauna and found none. However, there was one web page with an image of a "butterfly" which had been submitted and was identified on the website as a Ribbon-Tail. I sent my agent a link and he confirmed my guess as correct. I followed up with a link to this thread.